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About life in brief: short-film festival
Published: 26 February, 2010, 20:29
Edited: 27 February, 2010, 13:21
Four times a year, the 35mm cinema shows short films chosen from all over the world. This time the theme is "Poles" – the controversy of life captured from all possible angles and in different cinema genres.
The girl with an octopus; a sculptor creating women and bringing them to life; two girls dreaming of opening a hairdresser's salon, but decide to have proper fun before the final exam – these are only several stories to be seen in the new selection of Future Shorts festival where different poles of the surrounding reality, at times strange and gloomy, not always giving in to logic and rational explanations, but nevertheless exciting and drawing attention.
“Each film has to do with the way in which opposites in every meaning of the word come together or go different ways,” explains Future Shorts festival curator Mikhail Lakshin.
Short films have been forgotten by the mainstream film industry. But Mikhail Lakshin, a filmmaker himself, says festivals like this one can make a difference.
“We want to bring short films to a much wider audience, the maxim audience. We think short films are great,“ Lakshin says.
Despite the fact that some films are drawing criticism from the audience, the curiosity for them to access a full range of emotions in just a few minutes is definitely there.
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